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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH City of Philadelphia ELaiaQy EBIlaimcDncE EPaurmn A ROMANCE OF THE COMMONPLACE HBy EFirannnces nDann,Iknnnsim IKLeyes WNU Service Copyright by Frances Parkinson Keyes t SYNOPSIS Motoring' through Vermont, Philip Starr, young Boston architect, meets Blanche with seventeen, Manning, whom he Is immediately It enamored. being a long distance to Burlington, Starr's destination, Blanche suggests, the village of Hamstead not boasting a hotel, that he become, for the night, a guest of her cousin, Mary Manning. Mary receives Philip with true Vermont hospitality, and he makes the acquaintance of her cousin Paul, recognized as her fiance. Starr finds Mary is acquainted with Gale Hamlin, noted Boston architect, in whose office Philip is employed. He informs her of his desire to win Blanche for his wife. She tells him of an old tamily superstition concerning the Blanches of the Manning family. Paul Manning is inclined to be dissipated, not realizing Marys true worth. Marys reproaches for his undue conviviality" are badly received by Paul, and the girl begins to have misgivings as to the wisdom of the alliance. Gale Hamlin, long a suitor for Marys hand, visits Hamstead but makes no progress in his lovemaking. CHAPTER VI Continued 6 - For Heavens sake, Philip! Dont that I want to get away from Hamstead and stay away? If we fixed up this place, and put all that money into it, wed have to keep coming back to it! Thats the last thing on earth I want to do! I dont want an house, full of furniture, in an village! I want to live in a big city. I dont want a quiet existence; I want to give parties all the time except when I am going out to them little afternoon bridge parties and little evening theater parties and heaps of dancing. And I simply adore going to the movies and shopping around for lacy nightgowns and getting an ice cream soda in the middle of the morning, and having lunch at a tearoom. Thats what Ive done the few times Ive been to town to visit. Why Philip, I thought you were going to help me to escape from Lady Blanche farm! I thought you wanted me to have a good time and pretty clothes, and heaps of new friends. There was something almost grotesque about her, in spite of her loveliness, as she stood before him in her silvery brocade, clamoring for tawdry possessions and trifling pastimes. The sudden dread lest the delicate fabric of his romance might be rent before his eyes, filled Philip with fear. But this fear was engulfed in the terrorized premonition which his research had aroused. Somehow he steadied himself and managed to speak lightly. I do want you to have a good time and party clothes and pleasant friends, darling, he said. "And you shall. We wont say anything more about this scheme of mine, since it doesnt appeal to you. It was only a fancy, anyway." He drew her close to him, drugging himself, for the moment, with the delight of feeling her in his arms. But afterwards he sought out Mary. . Everyone always took stories of trouble to Mary, sure of help and unThe fact derstanding and comfort that it was ironing day, and that he found her, in the middle of a sultry afternoon, toiling away in a hot kitchen, and not sitting with folded hands In some secluded and restful spot, as comforters are traditionally supposed to be found, made no difference. He could not bring himself to speak of Blanches outburst, but he did speak of the ominous sense of foreboding which had been awakened by his perusal of Hastings history and which had persisted ever since. Mary listened to his recital in silence, and . without stopping her work. And when Philip had finished, she went to the stove for a hot iron, tested it with her hand, and began to press out Seths overalls before she answered. ' You dont think weve kept this from you wilfully, do you? she said, You know I asked you. at length. were anything that if there right off, would make you want Blanche less, and you said no. And Im sure that the reason she didnt tell you the whole story,- that day by the brook, was simply because, as she said, you would think she was awfully conceited and fresh if she inferred that she thought she was beautiful and likely to be loved at first sight by a handsome stranger. She doesnt read much, and shes probably forgotten ' part of the legend, anyway, even if she ever read it. You you wouldnt be so cruel as to spoil her lovely happiness by telling her about it now, would you realize I thought you might think I think myself perhaps I ought to on her account, you know. "On her account? said Mary, stupidly. If there is any truth in a thing like that, Isnt it my duty to? Why? So she could do something safer, of course. Mary folded the overalls carefully. There isnt anything safer for a girl to do, she said In a low voice, than to marry the man she loves. If if he loves her. And if her life is the one thats short, what does that matter, if its full and perfect, and complete? "I guess youre right, said Philip You huskily. Then, still hesitating dont suppose I think youre right Just because I want to, do you? Did you ever think anything was right just for that reason? Philip searched his conscience. I dont believe so, he said at last, smiling at her. Mary smiled back; and looking at her, but thinking of Blanche, Philip felt that this episode was closed. The second episode had nothing whatever to do with the past, but a good ... -- - . j you? Good Lord, Mary, you dont think I want to, do you? It would just about kill me to give her up." , Then what do you mean? fairly and kindly. But Paul was en- alls creaking, boys and girls singing as they walked arm in arm up the raged. You had better mind your own busidusty road to the village. Jane crossed he shouted, so loudly that the lawn to her own house and sat ness, Philip feared Violet and Blanche looking at her ribbon-tiecandy box I dont tell for some minutes before she went to' might both be aroused. you how to manage things with my bed. Violet collapsed, in an orgy of sister, do I? Youve done just as you satisfaction and tears, and Mary und d pleased about the whole affair, dressed her and made her a hot drink since the day you first struck the farm. with a bromide tablet melted In it. And Ill thank you to let mine alone, And finally, coming out of her cousins room at two oclock in the morning, too. I guess I know what Im about ! Im afraid you dont Thats just after having made her as comfortable it, said Philip. And Im older than as could be expected to quote Vioyou, and have been about a bit more, lets own feeble whisper she met Paul face to face In the hall and Oh, youre afraid I dont are you? He lurched towards her unsteadily. Well, I should worry, jeered Paul, There had been champagne, and a who was picking up more or less New strong punch served at the wedding, York slang. Were a good little boy, for Violet had had some fear that arent we? Never hit it up in all our Philips Boston friends might think lives! Well, run along to bed, thats her countrified. And all the evethe best place for one of your ad- ning, Paul had been alternately convanced years and experience you must suming. first punch and then chamlook out not to keep too late hours, or pagne and then punch again. The rewere all get your feet wet, or something like sults of his Then as too obvious In both his appearance that might be fatal ! Philip hesitated, Paul burst into oaths and his manner. Mary looked at him before which Philip, hitherto unacand her very soul revolted. disquainted with certain phrases of rural How dare you! she cried, vocabulary, stood electrified for a mo- grace your sisters wedding day like ment, and then walked into his own this ! room and closed the door. Paul seemed hardly to hear her. And so the second episode, also, But there was no doubt that he saw came to an abrupt end, and he strove her and that he found her very good to dismiss both from his mind. to look at Philip had once said that The wedding day, which seemed to but that if Mary was the impatient bridegroom so inter- she ever lovely always, she would be maggot angry, minably slow in arriving, came at last nificent. Mary was very angry now, The so warm, clear and cloudless. knew that that she angry little white Congregational church, she was wounded to hardly the heart as well. where all the Mannings had always She was, indeed, magnificent, beautiworshiped, and where the marriage ful as Paul had never seen her, had ceremony was performed, was decnever known she could be. He threw orated as it never had been before in his arms around her, and began to the hundred and fifty years of its ex- kiss her on her neck, her violently istence. The Wallacetown orchestra cheeks, her lips. Mary tried to strugplayed at the farm. A wedding sup- gle away from him, hot with fury, sick per, more sumptuous, than any of with shame and disgust. He only held which Hamstead had ever partaken, closer. At last she succeeded in her was spread on tables under huge awnfreeing one arm, and with all her. ings extending over the lawns, and I might, struck him across the mouth. two rooms were filled with presents Instead of sobering Paul, it stimuwhich any bride might well have been lated his raging senses to the point proud to display and possess. Blanche, of frenzy. He confronted Mary with wearing the countess pearls, enveloped unleashed fury. in a mist of white tulle and soft lace, You canting hypocrite! he shoutlooked more exquisite and fairy-liked, furiously, moping around all sumthan ever. Philips friends and they mer, acting as if you were crazy to seemed to be legion were there in have me make love to you ! And now full force, nor had Hamstead realfor me like a wildcat when I ized before how many Boston friends going I guess I Knew what I was it! try Gale Hamlin was Mary had, too. when I let you alone! I guess doing there, with his sister and niece. Mr. I can get all the kisses I want without Davis, the senior partner of the firm, for them by being hit in the had come, too, with his wife and sons ; paying face! From now on, you can mope and many others. All Hamstead was forever for all I care but you wont there, of course, and most of White have a chance to hit me again! I Water and some of Wallacetown; and never asked you to marry me, anyhow all Hamstead included, that summer, pretended I did ! I only youve pretty, painted Rosalie King, with her never wanted you at all Why should cousins, the Westons. I want a prude or a shrew or a Finally, Blanche and Philip drove jailor for a wife? You wanted me off in their own motor, showered with youve tried to act so high and rice and confetti, cheering and waving thoughabout it! And d n it, you alholy car as they most from their got me! But Im through with went. The guests remained a little now through do you hear? Im you longer to laugh and cry, and talk it free! And youll never get me again Then gradually they went after this !" over. home, motor-horn- s tooting, aged carry- (TO BE CONTINUED.) d over-indulgen- e Mary Tried to Struggle Away From Him, Hot With Fury, Sick With Shame and Disgust. deal to do with the present Try as he might and he certainly did try Philip could not succeed in liking Paul. What was worse, the more he saw of him, the less he liked him. The dislike, noticed, but carefully hushed up by Violet, seemed to be entirely mutual. And Paul was spending so much of his time, especially since the arrival of the new motor, in the society of Miss Rosalie King, a summer visitor, a worker in a New York department store, that his family was favored less and less by his presence. Philip, who had marveled at the way Mary bore Pauls shortcomings, and not only bore, but forgave them from the beginning, marveled still more at the apparent Indifference with which she bore his frank neglect. But Mary was, as he was eventually to discover, far less indifferent than he had supposed, and knowing a little of the capacity for suffering that permany silent and sons possess, the discovery disturbed him not a little. Next to Blanche, there was no one in the world for whom he cared as much as he already did for Mary, and they were naturally thrown a great deal together. Going into Seth Mannings house one day on an errand, he first encountered self-contain- Moses. Wheres Mary? inquired Philip. said Moses. In her room! Philip echoed. It was so unusual for Mary to be off duty even for a few minutes, that the fact was alarming. Yes. Lyin on the bed. Is she sick? No. Cryin. Hard," added Moses with emphasis. "Do you know why? pursued Philip. Paul, said Moses laconically. Philip turned thoughtfully away. He was sleeping in the room adjoining Pauls on his brief' visits at Lady Blanche farm, and he had some idea of the hours his future brother-in-laAfter vacillating for a was keeping. short time between his reluctance to meddle in other peoples affairs and his distress at the thought of Marys unhappiness, he waited up for Paul that night, and endeavored to have a talk with him. The attempt was far from successful Philip tried to put the question In her room, . ... ! ribbon-bedecke- d in Biblical Records Although there is no evidence that Penn had any knowledge of the vanished Egyptian city of Philadelphia, it is nevertheless possible that the name of his settlement derived from the same gay and dissolute Ptolemy Philadelplius who gave the Egyptian city its title, for there was another Philadelphia, also named after him. This city was in eastern Palestine. It has fallen into ruins, but remains both of pagan temples and Christian churches survive. 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